Friday's Miscellany 10-22-2010

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• The Ex-Taleban on the High Peace Council: A Renewed Role for the Khuddam ul-Furqan?

Afghanistan NGO Safety Office
• Afghanistan: ANSO Quarterly Data Report Quarter 3 2010 [01 January - 30 September]
• ANSO Quarterly Data Reports

Air University Library
• Recent Bibliographies
• WMD: Chemical, Biological, & Radiological
• Somalia Piracy
• Cyberspace and National Security
• Iraq Reconstruction

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Network Neutrality 101 - Why the Government Must Act to Preserve the Free And Open Internet

Amnesty International
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Briefing to the UN Committee Against Torture

Atlantic Council
• Triple Crown 2010: Can the Transatlantic Alliance be Strategic?

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Analysis of Financial Incentives for Early CCS Deployment
• How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
• Transportation Revenue Options: Infrastructure, Emissions, and Congestion

British American Security Information Council(BASIC)
• Iran Update, no. 146

Brookings Institute
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated October 19, 2010 and archive]
• Civil Society in the Arab World and the Dilemma of Funding
• Empirical Performance of a Decentralized Civil Violence Model
• Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
• Reset Reloaded: The Second Phase of Obama’s Russia Policy Should Now Have a Major European Component
• The Role of Religious Leaders and Religious Communities in Diplomacy
• Systemic Risk in the Financial System: Insights from Network Science
• (Un?)Happiness and Gasoline Prices in the United States

Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2009 Statistical Tables

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the Millennium Development Goals
• China’s Strategic Behaviour

CARE Canada
• Looking for Leadership: Women’s Empowerment and Canada’s New Role in Afghanistan

CATO Institute
• A Free Trade Agreement with South Korea Would Promote Both Prosperity and Security

Center for a New American Security
• America’s Interests in India
• India, The United States and the Global Commons
• Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of US-India Relations
• The Strategic Implications of Indo-US Private Sector Ties
• The United States and India 10 Years Out
• Unleashing US-India Defense Trade

Center for American Progress
• A New Approach to the Russia-Georgia Conflict

Center for Immigration Studies
• A Gift to the Drug Cartels: Will New Mexico Become the New Arizona?

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Summer 2010, v. 12, no. 4
• Germany and Sea Power in the 20th Century
• Inexpensive Leadership: On Canada’s Global Normative Position and Its Potentials
• Conference Proceedings: Canadian Reserves on Operations
• Conference Powerpoints: Canadian Reserves on Operations

Center for Security Policy
• National Security Scorecard

Center for Security Studies
• Intelligence Agencies: Adapting to New Threats
• Switzerland and the EU: Challenges and Uncertainties of Bilateralism

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Cyber Events Since 2006
• Doing Less with Less? Assessing the Impact of the UK Strategic Defense and Security Review
• Issues & Insights Vol. 10 - No. 24
• Middle Eastern Perspectives on the United States
• PacNet #50 - Enhancing Japan's position in the Senkaku Dispute
• The US Transition in Iraq: Iraqi Forces and US and Military Aid

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Caribbean Papers: Caribbean Economic Governance Project
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Burundi [4th ed]

Chatham House
• Evaluating the 2010 Strategy Review
• Hong Kong in the Global Economy: How the Special Administrative Region Rises to the Challenges Posed by China
• Managing Energy: Rethinking the Fundamentals - Managing Energy Technology
• Strategy in Austerity: The Security and Defence of the United Kingdom
• Yemen and Somalia: Terrorism, Shadow Networks and the Limitations of State-Building

Combat Studies Institute (CSI)
• War Termination: The Proceedings of the War Termination Conference United States Military Academy West Point 21 June 2010

Council on Foreign Relations
• Midterm Elections 2010: Spending Wars

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
• The Russo-Chinese Energy Relationship

Deloitte’s Global Energy & Resources Group
• Energy Predictions 2011 report

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-124 - The Performance of 287(g) Agreements Report Update
• OIG-10-122 - Age Determination Practices for Unaccompanied Alien Children - Update
• OIG-10-121 - FEMA’s Implementation of Recommendations from Top Officials 4
• OIG-10-97 - DHS' Counterintelligence Activities (Summary)

Department of State
• Briefing on Pending Major Arms Sale

Department of the Navy
• Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) 2011 Guidance

Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies
• China in Ghana: Easing the Shift from Aid Dependency to Oil Economy?

European Environment Agency
• Tracking Progress Towards Kyoto and 2020 Targets in Europe

European Policy Centre
• Skills and Education for Growth and Well-Being in Europe 2020: Are We on the Right Path?

Federal Reserve Board
• Report to the Congress on Risk Retention

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
• Identity Theft – Trends, Patterns, and Typologies Reported in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Filed by Depository Institutions

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Strengthen Management and Oversight of Its Prime Contractor, GAO-11-6
• Servicemember Reemployment: Agencies Are Generally Timely in Processing Redress Complaints, but Improvements Needed in Maintaining Data and Reporting, GAO-11-55
• Southwest Border: More Timely Border Patrol Access and Training Could Improve Security Operations and Natural Resource Protection on Federal Land, GAO-11-38

Heritage Foundation
• America’s Founders and the Principles of Foreign Policy: Sovereign Independence, National Interests, and the Cause of Liberty in the World
• Protective Agreement to Limit Missile Defense and Space Systems Should Delay New START
• Spending Cuts in British Defense Review: Less Than Expected, but Still Damaging
• The U.S. Takes “New Europe” for Granted at its Own Peril

Human Rights Watch
• Afraid and Forgotten: Lawlessness, Rape, and Impunity in Western Côte d’Ivoire
• Development Without Freedom: How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia
• The Price of Independence: Silencing Labor and Student Unions in Tunisia

Institute for Homeland Security Solutions
• Building on Clues: Examining Successes and Failures in Detecting U.S. Terrorist Plots, 1999-2009

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
• A Contentious New START: A Snapshot of the Debate over the New START Treaty
• Strategic Forum # 260 Private Contractors in Conflict Zones: The Good, the Bad, and the Strategic Impact

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Burundi: Overview of the 2010 Elections and Observations on the way Forward
• A Critical Assessment of Security Challenges in West Africa
• Illegal Fishing and the Rising Threat of Piracy

Institute for the Study of War
• Iraq – Order of Battle (Dec 09 – Oct 10)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Bank Lending in Turkey: Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policies
• Deconstructing The International Business Cycle: Why Does A U.S. Sneeze Give The Rest Of The World A Cold?
• Financial Contagion through Bank Deleveraging: Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the Financial Crisis
• Financial Frictions, Investment, and Institutions
• The Impact of the Great Recession on Emerging Markets
• International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters
• Is Social Spending Procyclical?
• Regional Economic Outlook: Europe
• Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere
• Restoring Debt Sustainability After Crises: Implications for the Fiscal Mix
• Spillovers from Europe into Morocco and Tunisia

International Relations and Security Network
• Azerbaijan: Should the Learned be Elected in Baku?
• Bahrain on the Edge
• The Broken US-Mexican Border
• China's Demographic Dilemma
• Drone Attacks Stoke Debate in Pakistan
• German Defense Reform and Conscription
• Regional Military Force Established to Crack Down on Lord’s Resistance Army
• Turkey's Referendum: Revenge à la Turca?
• Wen Jiabao: The Verdict of History

IRIS Independent Research
• 9 Secrets of the Tanker War: Replacing America’s Aerial Refueling Tankers with KC-X

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, October 22, 2010, v. 10, no. 21
o PLA Gains Clout: Xi Jinping Elevated to CMC Vice-Chairman
o Letter from Taiwan: Taipei and the New, Assertive China
o New Strains Emerge in the Sino-Russian Military Relationship
o Growing Nationalism and Maritime Jurisdiction in the East China Sea
• Terrorism Monitor, October 21, 2010, v. 8, no. 38
o Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Strategy of "Encircling" India
o The New Ideologues of the North Caucasus Jihadists
o Can Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Maintain its Operational Capability in a Sanctions Regime?

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• How Globalisation is Changing Patterns of Marginalisation and Inclusion in the UK

McKinsey Global Institute
• Beyond Austerity: A Path to Economic Growth and Renewal in Europe

Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Well Within Reach: America’s New Transportation Agenda

Monterey Institute for International Studies
• Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Reports

National Academies Press
• Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration
• Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report
• Sequence-Based Classification of Select Agents: A Brighter Line
• Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report
• Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs

National Library of Medicine
• Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) website
• NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit

Officer.com
• Maritime Homeland Security: Are Duties & Responsibilities Changing?

Parliamentary Library of Australia
• Multiculturalism: A Review of Australian Policy Statements and Recent Debates in Australia and Overseas

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Development Thinking
• Prospects for Implementing the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
• A Role for the G-20 in Addressing Climate Change?

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Indians See Threat From Pakistan, Extremist Groups

RAND
• Residential Insurance on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: A Framework for Evaluating Potential Reforms
• Retention of Military Physicians: The Differential Effects of Practice Opportunities Across the Three Services
• Three Essays on Obstacles to Improving Demographic Representation in the Armed Forces

Russian and Eurasian Security Network
• Russian Analytical Digest No. 84: Police Reform

Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: It Never Hurts to Talk
• In Afghanistan, Less is More
• Design and the Prospects for Critical Dialogue
• Governance in the Raw: A Primer on Tribal Political Systems
• Planning a Military Campaign to Support Negotiations in Afghanistan
• Southern Sudan - the Four Theses
• Team Ninewa Models Successful Civilian-Military Unity of Effort

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Military Spending and Arms Procurement in the Gulf States

Transnational Institute
• Assumptions in the European Union Biofuels Policy: Frictions with Experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
• The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru

United Kingdom
• A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy
• Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review

UK National Audit Office
• Ministry of Defence: The Major Projects Report 2010

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
• Disarmament Forum - Arms Control Verification, 2010, no. 3
o Arms Control Verification (full text)
o Verification: To Detect, to Deter and to Build Confidence
o The Verification Debate in the BTWC in 2011
o Monitoring and Verification of the Arms Trade and Arms Embargoes
o Verification in Space: Theories, Realities and Possibilities
o Verification and Security in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Elements and Framework of a Nuclear Weapons Convention
o The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Verification of International Agreements

United Nations Office in Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Guide for the Development of Forensic Document Examination Capacity

Uppsala Conflict Data Program // Peace Research Institute Oslo
• UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset: Version 4-2010, 1946 – 2009

U.S. Census Bureau
• Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2009

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
• “Children of War” Screening at United Nations Spotlights Efforts to Aid Child Soldiers
• Dangerous Liaisons with the Afghan Taliban: The Feasibility and Risks of Negotiations
• On the Issues: Lebanon
• Persistent Challenges to Long-Term Peace in Côte d’Ivoire
• Realism and Pragmatism in Security Sector Development
• Social Media Amplify Concerns in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State
• Transparency is the Key to Legitimate Afghan Parliamentary Elections

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Balancing Rights in Bahrain
• Iran's Influence in Iraq: Game, Set, but Not Match to Tehran
• Turkey under the AKP: Neither a European nor a Regional Power (Part 3)

World Economic Forum
• Global Gender Gap Index 2010